Bill Text: TX HB4469 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of workers' compensation insurance and group accident and health insurance together in a packaged plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB4469 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4469-Introduced.html
| 87R6578 RDS-D | ||
| By: Bell of Montgomery | H.B. No. 4469 | |
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| relating to the provision of workers' compensation insurance and | ||
| group accident and health insurance together in a packaged plan. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2052, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 2052.005 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2052.005. CONTRACTS WITH ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE | ||
| COMPANIES TO PROVIDE MAJOR MEDICAL COVERAGE AND MEDICAL BENEFITS. | ||
| (a) Subject to Subsection (c), a workers' compensation insurance | ||
| company may contract with an accident and health insurance company | ||
| to offer to employers a workers' compensation insurance policy and | ||
| a group accident and health insurance policy together in one | ||
| packaged plan under which employees and their dependents are | ||
| eligible for major medical expense coverage and employees are | ||
| covered for medical benefits and other benefits required by Chapter | ||
| 408, Labor Code. | ||
| (b) A packaged plan offered under this section must provide | ||
| that medical examinations required under Subchapter A, Chapter 408, | ||
| Labor Code, are covered exclusively under the workers' compensation | ||
| insurance policy included in the packaged plan. | ||
| (c) The commissioner must approve an agreement described by | ||
| Subsection (a) and the policy forms to be used for the packaged | ||
| plan. | ||
| (d) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2022. | ||
